22 Sexy Movies That Are About to Steam Up Your Netflix Account

By Andrea Reiher

Updated on 2/14/2018 at 3:53 PM

Everett Collection

Everett Collection

If you're trying to plan Valentine's Day and need a little help spicing things up, we've got a list of the sexiest titles on (or coming to) Netflix in the month of February. There are erotic dramas, sexual thrillers, high-flying adventure, and even a documentary about today's hookup culture, if you like your sexy time a little on the intellectual side. Plus, all three Ocean's Eleven movies are coming to Netflix, which would make for a wonderful V-Day triple feature on all on their own.

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Sex and Lucia — Everett Collection

Sex and Lucia

This twisty, dark Spanish drama is about a writer and his relationships with a waitress and a mysterious woman with whom he has a one-night stand.

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Eyes Wide Shut — Everett Collection

Eyes Wide Shut

This erotic drama stars then-married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a couple who becomes embroiled in a world of sexual rituals and secret societies.

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider — Everett Collection

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

If you want your sexiness with some high-flying adventure, check out Angelina Jolie as the titular video game character in this 2001 film. It's like a sexy Indiana Jones . . . actually, young Indy is pretty sexy in his own right, so this is a lot like that.

Watch it Feb. 1!

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Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution — Magic Lantern Pictures

Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution

This one is not light sexual fare. This film is a documentary about growing up in today's hookup culture and follows a group of college students on Spring break.

When it's available: Feb. 1

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Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen — Everett Collection

Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen

Does it get any sexier than George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, and company in fancy suits pulling off clever and dangerous heists, plus Julia Roberts with her 1000-watt smile? No, it does not.

When it's available: Feb. 1

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On Body and Soul — Inforg-M&M Film Kft.

On Body and Soul

This award-winning Hungarian film is about two people who work together in a slaughterhouse and discover they have the same dream every night, so they try to recreate it in real life. It's a bit heavier than the average rom-com, but critics worldwide have been extolling how beautiful and captivating it is.

When it's available: Feb. 2

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Basic Instinct — Everett Collection

Basic Instinct

A scandalous thriller when it hit theaters in 1992, Basic Instinct stars Michael Douglas as a detective who becomes involved with the prime suspect in a murder investigation.

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Blue Is the Warmest Color — Everett Collection

Blue Is the Warmest Color

This coming-of-age story follows a 15-year-old girl as she grows up and starts exploring her sexuality. She begins a passionate relationship with another woman, but the couple have their share of problems and heartbreak.

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Like Water For Chocolate — Miramax Films

Like Water For Chocolate

A story of forbidden love, this 1992 award winner is about a girl named Tita who is in love with Pedro. Her mother doesn't approve of their relationship, so he marries her oldest sister in order to stay close to her.

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Chloe — Everett Collection

Chloe

This sexual thriller stars Amanda Seyfried as Chloe, a call girl who is hired by a woman, Catherine, to test her husband's fidelity. But Chloe ends up becoming involved with Catherine instead.

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Magic Mike — Everett Collection

Magic Mike

Who doesn't want to watch nearly naked hunks gyrate to dance music? Nobody, that's who. And Magic Mike is also really funny, so that's a win.

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Nymphomaniac: Volume I and II — Everett Collection

Nymphomaniac: Volume I and II

This Lars von Trier two-parter is actually the third installment in his Depression Trilogy, which also includes Antichrist and Melancholia. The framing device for this installment is that a man finds a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac beaten up and lying in an alley behind his apartment. He takes her home to help her, and she recounts her sexual past to him.

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On the Road — Everett Collection

On the Road

Based on Jack Kerouac's famous novel of the same name, this 2012 drama tells the story of friends Sal and Dean as they traverse the country and are in and out of different relationships.

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The Queen of Spain — Everett Collection

The Queen of Spain

Penélope Cruz stars as Macarena Granada, a Spanish Hollywood star who returns to Spain to film a big-budget feature about Queen Isabella I. It's a sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, which is not on Netflix, but this romantic comedy can be enjoyed by itself. It costars Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin.

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The Reader — Everett Collection

The Reader

Based on Bernhard Schlink's award-winning novel, this movie is for those of you who like your sexy scenes interspersed in a serious drama. The Reader stars Kate Winslet as a middle-aged woman who begins an affair with a teenage boy (David Kross), who reads to her after their intimate encounters. She suddenly moves, and then years later, the boy (now played by Ralph Fiennes) sees the woman when she is a defendant in a trial for World War II war crimes. If you're into books, the novel is also worth a read.

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Rent — Everett Collection

Rent

This 2005 adaptation of the blockbuster Broadway musical is about a group of young people living in the East Village of New York City in the late '80s/early '90s, struggling to pay rent and experimenting with drugs and their sexuality. It boasts an all-star cast that includes Rosario Dawson, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs, with nearly everyone who originated the roles on Broadway appearing here in the film.

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Strictly Ballroom — Miramax

Strictly Ballroom

Before Baz Luhrmann directed Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!, he burst onto the scene with this 1992 romantic comedy that centers around a ballroom dancer who wants to shake up the establishment. When he meets a fellow dancer who shares his vision, the sparks and dance steps fly.

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Summertime — Everett Collection

Summertime

This 2015 French-Belgian romance, set in the early 1970s, is about a young woman who grows up in the French countryside but decides to move to Paris, where she meets a beautiful feminist and begins a relationship with her.

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Wetlands — Everett Collection

Wetlands

This 2013 German film is definitely the most eyebrow-raising one on the list, as it tells the story of a young German woman who is sexually adventurous and enjoys going against societal norms.

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Y Tu Mamá También — Everett Collection

Y Tu Mamá También

This 2001 Mexican film is from director Alfonso Cuarón, the man behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, and Gravity. It is about two young men who go on a road trip with a woman and begin a sexual relationship with her and each other.

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Young & Beautiful — Everett Collection

Young & Beautiful

This 2013 French drama is about a young woman working as a prostitute and exploring her relationships with men outside of her work.

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Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) — Everett Collection

Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)

This 2015 French drama is about a group of teens who begin organizing sex parties. It's all fun and games until the unintended consequences of random sexual encounters rear their ugly heads. So be prepared for this one to take a dark turn.